Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1923, Page 61

L SUNDAY NTAR, PRI FOR BOYS AP ¥ An Unpopular Umpire The umpire made every one mad, . In_fact, he got In very bad; To the coach's square code The mean fellow owed The narrow escape that he had. the his ILL THOMPSO de lines and teeth in anger. being ated , lterally cheated shouted the umpire, and a up fre the crowd. could ¢n keep from on ground His team was out of the ning + that cra ambled. “That ut at all. 1 wonder what the coach thinks now. e wants us to good sports, but surely does! to be sis sies und let that old umpire cheat us e ehis game over and Woodlawn High Schoc It was en fair. 4 Dick ch STORIES, SHORT STORIES matter with | GAMES, NG GIRLS | Walker say?’ Bill, who was presi- dent of the Athletic Association, felt that it was his duty to see that the fellows didn't do anything they {shouldn’t. But Dick and the other | fellows were too angry to care what the coach would say. | | “Come on,” they cried. “Let's get| him. Let's clean up on him before he | | leaves town.” | | Bill watched the angry gang rush‘ loff towards the hotel. He ed | | he could go, too, but he felt he ought to tell the coach first. Mr. Walker {was in the gym. Bill rushed up| to his office. He gasped out the sto of how the gang was going to “get the umplre. Bill had never seen the coach so | angry before. “Bill, I feel as though 1 | would like to help.” he cried. “I'd ik beat that fellow to a pulp. | | Sometimes I think there's a limit | even for a good sport, but, of course, | | there 1sn’ However, don't you | worry. They won't get him.* He | pointed to nis locker room. “I have | itding in there. 1 guess he's [learned his lesson. He's s ared he doesn’t know what to do. Come on, | you and I will see that he gets out of My car is outside.” | town sately. Ban was a boy who made Fun of the folks who were 'fraid; Said he, “It's queer jow girls shake with fear." For danger and trouble he prayed. 1 build- years, biack under bal- 4. What but the “W are ab P the animals held athletic meets the kangaroo, that queer native ¢ Australia, would probably hold boxing. %o very different is the kangaroo hat he really can’t be compared Figh any other animal. ‘With hind hgs over twice the size of his front pgs and a stiff thick tail almost as bng as his body, he looks very lumsy, but it is these powerful legs nd tafl that enable the kangaroo to lump from twenty. to thirty feet in ne bound and to travel so quickly hat the fastest hunting dogs can't vertake him. Except occasionally when feeding. he kangaroo doesn't use his front egs for support. He holds an up- {ght position, and when he's rest- ng he curls his stout tail under him and eits on it. He never looks for trouble and will fiot fight unless he is cornered. His nly means of defense is the very ong sharp claw in each of his hind jteet. When he is In danger of at- he titles for the broad jump, racing | nae the quiet was broke back under the several pierct one sudde loud crash followed “The balcony is falling.” shouted. “Oh! Oh!" A thin cloud rose up over t the balcony lan was out Flint. He thing he knew he ved and pushed his wa; the crowd to the exit trembiing. he stood panting « ste He did not notice th arcund him. He felt dazed an It was awful t t was like being and hit in the head a The first thir a hand littie Be fall of trightened, Ben? | only & lttle plece o off the plastering that | under the bal- | arm arcund his dear, fell cony. ceiling put her WILD ANIMALS—The Kangaroo. { tack he will speed away with spring- ing leaps, but if coraered he will turn and fight desperately. Resting on his tail, he will allow the enemy to attack and then will box with | his front paws or.hold him while, with swift strokes, he wounds or kills his victim with his terrible sharp claws Kangaroo hunting has become such a sport that especlally swift dogs, called kangaroo hounds, bred to run the animals down. When shallow water and when the dogs attack him he will grab them, one after the other, and with his powertul legs and tail will hold them under water untll they drown. Kangaroos can be easily tamed and are trained by their owners to box with them. have been | pursued the kangaroo will run into. PUZZLES, Games, Sports, Play, Stunts TRACK NO.J LVNEY \if PN g 1 SN ALY % START = HEAD FIRST L] Toot! Toot! Going Through a Tunnel! The Fun Maker RIDDLES, HANDICRAFT, Real Fun for Every One TRACK NO.2 . e INISH Vg N\ CHANGE CARS-FEET FIRST SCIENCE, 1923 —PART 9 The Twins Lose a Tooth Said Douglas, “This tooth is so loose, For eating it's not any use; it ought to be out | Without any doubt.” | S0 Don got some string for a noose. Douglas experimenting wiggled his ‘ul‘vr-: got a loose tooth.” stuck out an tongue and carefully tooth back and forth. ought to come out.” “Oh, let me pull it out” Donald cried eagerly. “I'd like to. Reme ber, I let you pull my last one out “Yes,” Douglas grudgingly admit ted, “but yours was lots looser. | sides T pulled gently and didn't hurt ' Donald assured “I don't belleve Iit's quite loose enough to come out. Seems to me mother wouldn't want me to have it out yet.” S But Donald was not to be put off that way. He asked his mother, and she assured him he might pull his brother's tooth right away if he | wished. Poor Douglas could think of o other excuse. He decided to be brave and do what Don said. Donald untangled a plece of string trom the nails, corks, fishing tackle and other rubbidh in his pocket. One end he tled securely around the loose ADVENTURE, “I suppose it | Be- | JOKES, CARTOON | | | Custer, the Boy General ! EARLY all boys know the| This fon & 1 story of how en. Custer | not keep £ a | 1 routed the Indians in the west, | #x0¢ but b | Some boys, however, do neve - | know that Custer was fighting r | skins when he was ten vears of ag. | not, of course, real Indians, the | ¢ { story-book kind when 1 1 te | George Armstrong Custer t {a farm, and attended : t | school. The teacher school was known as “Old Stebb hie Wearing @ pair of felt slippers rh {deaden his footsteps, he would cree cautiously and noisclessly around the (Play exports from ail ever N | nal, the last boy in each row, known | ahead of him Witk Lis body S saidite 2 S s i g i | s the “caboo: drops” knees | hands. This {s where the funniest st O I0 18 S0 ARJEDUDLL WY " Regular readers of the Fun Mal |eyes and mind not intent up: b Uil worts of games And stuats Just 4% |and crawls toward the head of the|part of the game comes. If the | inind sot/inteny asithey are iovented.) {line. When crawling player | a fat boy in your ecrowd, b | task, down would pounce the ¥ % % mes out of the tunnel he 5| a hard time, indeed! "‘”’"‘d- "“ the ¢ : LY 1 the expre erect. Ag soon as the last play | ery hoy takes his turn gring ., 8 A good caning. ; Ville! Passengers must row sees the- fitst hoy standing | through reversed. When the last| t0Oh: the other he tied tothe knob of | Foxy as “Old Stebbins ¢ t Is in, as we're o drops to his knees|one has gone through oo | the swinging door. “Now vou stand ' his match in the mischie ing to @ tunne es crawling throv This! erect, he call ov oaees | JUSt 28 far away as the string will | for as he would gl The “tunnel gam iagrammed | continues until the caboose 18 again | which is the slgnal that the train let you,"'he commanded, “and when I|about, he would find G I A he i Al e 1T TN FoNEt | ot e aud GtibL Sonie out ot ths tannel |Jerk the door open your tooth will |engaged in tracing ths b g for: indie Ay Shor Gtitass ; . The first row. or train, to whistle | S0me ot : e river, or oh . . can pl bef two Tows of Change Trains. is the w or ot tite: race We Douglas was not ove: en- h his forefinger in the Y e 38 Rt weak e Wan thusiastic. He took his place as Don |«Old Stebbins" would give a Al y8 in each row stand three |t igain drops ot 4he seciat of fots instructed and watched his brother | satisfactic sing such a ¢ . « « »m each with tb L time land.) g9 u the other door “S-8-say pupil No sooner was i s d . i wide apart At A pusk (Copyright, 1923 ) s-something before you so 1 rned, an with the quicknese of a A he begged Indan, up would be lifted th r { T monct, Yontd icaly a|the geography, and young Nature Faker. | N sk | would be deep in the stirring scencs PICTURE PUZZLE { alelsy S of war and adventure the hidden novel beneath. ¢ was never enay r WHAT 0 WORDS BEGINNING WITH SAME LETTER ARE PICTURED Tool-Craft Puzzie Answers: The robber wrotes | “Yore goose Is cooked ufless you come | across with five thousand tones.” The | ten words are mald, measies, mall, mall. | maple, milk, milkman, money, mouth, mustache. man, All Sorts of Things for Boys and Men to Make By Frank 1. Solar (ROUND AND SANDPAPER CORNERS AND EDGES <z o ROOFING NaiL 2 Screw In Australla the kangaroos are constantly hunted because they de- stroy the grazing flelds needed for cattle and sheep. Thelr skifis are HAT do you do with our very valuable, and the natives use o jcaus: Did yon ever | the tail to make soup. i stop to think that if vau H learned to use the solder- jing copper, or iron as it is usually jcalled, you could make hundreds of {toys and other useful articles? { The copper can be heated in any !stove or on the gas range. A char- coal furnace can be made from a {large-sized tin can. Soldering paste, jor any other good flux, to be applied to the place where you wish the solder to stick, is necessary. A can opener, a pair of tin snips, and a marking awl (made by driving a brad into a stick) are the important tools. To tin copper properly, first file the point until it is bright. Then heat very hot and rub on a plece of sal ammonlac, at the same time ap- plying the bar of solder to the point. Be sure to heat the part to be sol i l l PAINT INSIOE ALUMINUM. How to Make a Trouble Lamp and Tin Can Scoops dered to the melting point of the[buy a cheap one, hammering out the nose until it fits the socket, and sol- solder by holding the copper on it before moving the copper on along the joint. When tinned correctly, the der in place. new dime. The scoops shown are made from square and round tin cans. First scratch a pattern for the scoop on the can and then cut to line with the tin snips. The handles are made of wood, whittled in shape. The trouble lamp is useful in any place lighted by electricity, as it can be easily focused wherever desired. For the handle bore a three-cighth- inch hole for the pipe in a square plece of soft wood, and then carve to shape. Drive the pipe Into the handle. Fish a plece of lamp cord through the pipe and wire it to a socket screwed to the end of the pipe, con- 1s used. (Copsright, 1928.) —_— Business As Usual. Abe shoot.” lars for the gun. Abe—Sold. —_— Situation Wanted. of this girl? | the wire, Make a funnel of tin orlpicture, and I tried to erase it. This lamp may be used as a spot- point of the copper is like a bright |light and for $hadow pictures, if the inside of the funnel ls painted with aluminum paint and a 100-watt lamp (who has discovered a bur- glar in his house)—Hands up or I'll| * Quick-witted burglar—Fifty dol- City Editor—Who ruined the photo New Reporter—She heid a book in necting a plug at the other end of | front of her face when we took the than his heart falled t of dan ger from the taut string. As Donald Tan di the hall to the ! other door the idea occurred to him ¢ a trick on Doug. “I'll push door in,” he thought, * ad of , and then he'll have all this scare for nothing.” With a 0D hed against the door and dashed * there was a loud crash swed by a prolonged howl from { Doug, a8 he picked himself up from | behind the door. “What do you mean, my head like that? I'l get | | Doneld was off in & second, followed | by Dougla bt pursuit. He caught ! him in the corner of the kitchen and pounded him vigorously in the stom- ach. “You made me bite my tongue, you d1d,” he growled. “It's bleeding." “Aw, get off my stomach. Let me up. That's where you pulled vour | tooth out’when you ran a: —_— He's Lucky. Willle—Yes, he's & seasoned story teller all right. g Daly—How's that? Willls—Every tims he springs a joke summer is sure to fall for it Lo e N e Right? Professor—According to Milton's idea of the universe, where is hell, LeRoy? 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